When I was little and started crying hystericaly, my parents would tell me to stop or else the police would come.Because of this, I thought of the police as bad people and would be afraid when i saw one.
A childhood belief about police

others believed things like this
- I thought the song "Karma Police" was actually saying "call the police" before I learned the title— Alberto Richardson
- When I used to see the sign 'police accident' I thought it meant that a police car had crashed.Anon
- I used to think that the river police were there to stop naughty people from pulling the plug out.— Linda
- When I was a little kid. I thought that police officers were a gang of mean people who bullied others.— LOOL
- I wanted to be a police officer as a kid because I believe police officer's couldn't die.— Sam
- When the police are talking about "rap sheets," I thought that the criminals were making rap music.Anon